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Town Manager says Winter Harbor won’t receive a new ballot tabulator for November
Summary
Town Manager Sara J. Liscomb told the Selectmen that the Secretary of State did not go out to bid for new tabulator machines for the third consecutive year, meaning Winter Harbor will not receive a new tabulator in time for the November 2025 election.
Town Manager Sara J. Liscomb told the Winter Harbor Selectmen on Sept. 8 that the Maine Secretary of State again did not put the new ballot tabulators out to bid, and as a result Winter Harbor will not receive a new tabulator before the Nov. 2025 election.
Liscomb delivered the update during routine Town Manager remarks at the start of the Sept. 8 meeting at the Town Office. She also told the board she will attend an upcoming Networking Day and that all tax bills have been mailed.
The lack of a new tabulator means the town will run the November election using its current equipment or procedures; the minutes do not specify alternate arrangements, required contingency plans, or whether the town will seek shared equipment or additional training. Liscomb said the Secretary of State has “for the third year in a row not gone out to bid for the new tabulator machines,” language recorded in the meeting minutes.
The Selectmen did not take a formal vote on election equipment at the meeting, and the minutes do not record any immediate directions to staff about contingency planning. The next procedural steps or any communications the town intends to send to voters about equipment or polling procedures were not specified in the minutes.
